Tabla de contenidos para June 2017 en Gamesmaster

Every story has two sides – it’s never quite as simple as good vs evil. For example, I had a very good reason for eating Ben’s last Jaffa Cake when he got up to go to the loo, no matter how much the office may now paint me as the villain… In Star Wars Battlefront II, you’ll be stepping into the shadowy shoes of the Empire to see things from the other (Dark) side for once. Head over to our huge feature to find out all the latest on the explosive single-player campaign, as well as the revamped multiplayer, space battles, and new heroes. That’s not the only shooter to get excited about this issue, either – Call Of Duty has returned too, and it’s heading back in time for…

I’ve been playing Breath Of The Wild on my Switch for a couple of weeks now, and I’ve realised that this game is tough as a nail sandwich with rocks replacing bread. I’ve got around seven to ten hours on it, and about 50 or 60 deaths. It’s a clever decision to up the difficulty as the classic Zelda players are older now, and for kids it provides a challenging experience to help them learn. I’ve played both this game and Dark Souls, and I can see some large similarities. The boss health bar, the massive damage dealt to you, the insane difficulty at some places. It took me 15 deaths to figure out that you cannot exit the plateau before acquiring the glider. Even non-boss enemies seen in the…

They should put Bananaman, Desperate Dan, and Minnie The Minx in Marvel Vs Capcom Infinite. Games Asylum, @gamesasylum I don’t understand this hate with people saying Xbox has no exclusives. It’s the PlayStation that has hardly any exclusives. I ended up selling my PS4 last November because of it. Chris Billman, Facebook Inazuma Eleven is the best sports game ever. I mean, what other game lets you summon a dragon to get a goal in? George Anderson, @Gnator8t4 I remember when GM sent me a copy of Haze and FIFA 08 for getting the Letter Of The Month. Only the best rewards. Jordan King, @KonaYMA6 I’d like to see Mario get his own karting spin-off. They could call it Super Mario Kart. They could do loads of sequels if it…

“ZELDA MAY NOT EVEN BE THE BEST SWITCH GAME OF 2017. DON’T FORGET MARIO” What. A. Year. We’re not even halfway through 2017, and it’s already one of the strongest years for games in recent memory. If all goes well, and the rest of its big hitters deliver, you could be looking at the finest year ever. Considering some of the stinkers we’ve all endured – I’m looking at you, 2005 and 2006 – this really is a glorious time to boot up your console or rig. Think I’m being a Hyperbolic Harry? Pffh. Just look at the goodies you’ve been served up in the past five months. Horizon: Zero Dawn; Persona 5; The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild; Nioh; Nier: Automata; Prey; Everything; Resident Evil VII. The…

“A GAME THAT WANTS YOU TO HAVE FUN IMMEDIATELY, AND LOOK RIDICULOUSLY COOL WHILE YOU DO” Format PS4, XO, PC Publisher Capcom Developer Capcom ETA 19 September Not so much a reboot, more a refocusing, Marvel Vs Capcom: Infinite looks – and plays – every bit like the streamlined, more immediate, and entirely more comprehensible tune-up the anarchic, 19-year-old fighter has long needed. With a potentially huge new, MCU-loving fanbase waiting in the wings, the timing (and approach) could not be better. That’s not to say that this new iteration has lost the series’ trademark high-flying lunacy. This remains a gleefully giddy fighting experience, packing explosive colour, aerial spectacle, and glorious, gratuitous juggles. It’s just that for all the super-powered beatdowns on offer (or, rather, piped into your eyes at…

“AT CERTAIN INTERVALS CLASSIC SONIC SHOWS UP THROUGH A RIP IN SPACETIME AND BECOMES THE NEW PLAYABLE CHARACTER” Format Switch, PS4, XO, PC Publisher Sega Developer Sonic Team ETA November In our incredibly reductive hypothesis, there are two types of people: those demanding a return of classic Sonic, with the portly belly, the 16-bit visuals, and the tireless running from left to right, and those clamouring for a modern 3D Sonic, with electric guitars and chili dogs and the possibility an orca might jump out of the sea and crush you at any moment. Luckily, Sonic Team has the entire spectrum of humanity covered. The first group will want launching-soon Sonic Mania, a retro-leaning sidescroller taking inspiration from the hedgehog’s golden years. For the latter there’s this more expensive-looking 3D…

“KICKED-UP DUST HANGS AROUND FOR TWO MINUTES – A PERIOD OF TIME SLIGHTLY MAD HAS DILIGENTLY RESEARCHED” Format PS4, XO, PC Publisher Bandai Namco Developer Slightly Mad Studios ETA October It’s tough,” says Nicolas Hamilton, brother of Lewis, professional driver in the British Touring Car Championship, and handling consultant to Slightly Mad Studios. “It’s tough in real life too.” He’s trying to make us feel better after we confess to spinning out numerous times on the driving sim’s new ice tracks, but then, he should know. Hamilton and co visited numerous regions to navigate all manner of loose surfaces, capture their unique challenges, and then pit them against players. Ice driving – or, in our case, ice crashing – is one component of Project Cars 2’s LiveTrack 3.0 feature which…

Format PC Pub Fireblade Software Dev Fireblade Softwae ETA Winter If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. For example, if your ship gets blown to pieces by cannon fire, or dragged under the waves by a giant squid. There’s always another vessel – and a replacement crew – in this nautical roguelike. Battle seems impressively tactical; you’ll need to direct your crew around the bridge, aim at different parts of the enemy ship to weaken its abilities, and manage your position to make best use of your weapons. Outside of scraps you explore a procedurally generated ocean in search of adventure.…

Format PS4, PC Pub Toxic Games Dev Toxic Games ETA October In the sequel to 2012’s spatial puzzler, archaeologist Emilia Cross awakens on a mysterious planet with no memory of how she got there. Thankfully she’s in communication with an astronaut who’s helping her reach the peak of a monolith to broadcast a signal and teleport home. That’s provided you navigate fiendish conundrums with your levitation gloves, such as rearranging giant jigsaws and spinning sections of a Rubik’s Cube-style room. Unreal Engine 4-powered, QUBE 2 also features lovely environments to prevent cabin fever.…

STORIES UNTOLD With a tagline of ‘Four stories, one nightmare,’ this anthology PC game doesn’t just have a similar font to our favourite Netflix show. It’s a text adventure that mixes mystery, horror and sci-fi into a perfect blend of psychological nasty. Not convinced? One part, The House Abandon, is available for free. KNIGHTS & BIKES It’s still to come this year, but in this gorgeous adventure the kids have to the save the day. Just like Dustin and co, Nessa and Demelza go everywhere on their trusty bikes, and Foamsword games has been inspired by ’80s adventures. Talented kids you don’t hate? Check. Perilous quests? We’re in. THIMBLEWEED PARK It’s not all about kids, but there’s something distinctly Stranger Things about this point-and-click mystery adventure. A murder in a…

“BATTLE MODE REVERTS TO THE STANDARD ARENA FORMAT, FEATURING FIVE NEW MAPS” Format Switch Publisher Nintendo Developer Nintendo ETA Out now Players 1-12 It’s hard not to feel a slight twinge of envy when playing Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Those who skipped the poor old Wii U might have spent the past three years missing out on one of the finest arcade racing games ever made, but we can only imagine what it’s like to come to this new, improved version completely fresh. Still, even having spent a three-figure number of hours with the original, familiarity has done little to dull the vibrancy of this wonderful game – and the totally revamped battle mode might be reason alone to recommend buying it a second time. The core game is all…

1 PERSONA 5 PS4 A game so irresistibly stylish that my girlfriend has become obsessed with watching me play it. No complaints from me, though – it’s my new favourite-ever JRPG. Robin Valentine, Editor 2 SEVERED PS VITA I love this dungeon crawler’s surreal setting, a colourful nightmare world of twisted monstrosities. It’s almost as strange as a man only just getting into PS Vita in the year 2017… Robin Valentine, Editor 3 GHOST RECON: WILDLANDS PC My squad is a well-oiled machine: find compound, launch mortars in there, call some rebels to cause havoc, lob some grenades – job done. I’m so very sneaky. Ben Griffin, Senior Staff Writer 4 THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: BREATH OF THE WILD SWITCH I’m hunting down the last remaining armour sets. Gotta wear…

Ask any undercover agent what their most vital tool of infiltration is, and they’ll all give you the same answer: monster trucks. In its continuing quest for absolute authenticity, Ubisoft has released the Narco Road add-on for Ghost Recon Wildlands, which charges you with, among other things, pulling off sweet racing stunts in beefy four-wheelers and slick muscle cars to win the trust of a new drug-smuggling gang. Before sneakily assassinating every single member of the gang’s upper hierarchy, of course. Not enough open-world Ubisoft action for you? Then how about a massive dollop of content for Watch Dogs 2? In addition to free updates containing new multiplayer modes, items of clothing, and weapons, this month you can also grab the No Compromise DLC pack, which sets hacktivist group Deadsec…

CHOOSE YOUR FACE What better way to cleanse your skin than with something made from squeezing Pokémon. Maybe... So no Pikachu were harmed in the making of the TonyMoly skincare range but you can make your face feel really soft. There’s even a Charmander version for brightening dull skin, and a hydrating Squirtle version. FORKING GOOD Japanese maker of Cup Noodle, Nissin, does a range of tasty Final Fantasy noodles – but nothing can beat a giant weapon sized fork sword for when standard chopsticks just won’t do. No, of course you won’t look utterly ridiculous armed with this. Bonus noodle damage! SCENT FROM HELL Because you’ve always wanted to smell like death. Capcom actually released a T-Virus aftershave last year in Japan, complete with hideous Umbrella zombie box, and…

“THIS APPROACH OFFERS A THOUGHTFUL ALTERNATIVE TO ‘NIGHTMARE DIFFICULTY UNLOCKS” Ive never been one for replaying games, particularly linear ones. I know people say Bioshock takes on a new resonance when you play it through again knowing the devious meaning behind Atlas’ polite requests, and I’m aware of the Dark Souls contingent who’ll claim that I can’t really call myself a Dark Souls fan until I’ve completed it in NG++++++. Acknowledged, but overruled. Too many games, too little time. But then I played Nier: Automata. Developers should take inspiration from how Nier: Automata deals with replayability, and its rejection of the conventional Hollywood-style conclusions that most major single-player games adhere to. Automata has multiple endings, but these are not dictated by binary choices, or even by several decisions you make…

ROBIN’S PICK Uncharted: The Lost Legacy I think I’m probably in the minority here, but Chloe Frazer is my favourite character from the Uncharted series – and with her having been barely present in 3 and completely absent from 4, I can’t wait to see her finally get her time in the spotlight again. And if Left Behind is anything to go by, Naughty Dog knows exactly what it’s doing when it comes to add-on adventures. PS4 – 22 August BEN’S PICK Destiny 2 I still don’t know the consensus on the first – even fans seem devoted to it reluctantly, and mostly just because they like numbers a lot – so when I play Bungie’s MMO/shooter sequel I promise to come down on it decisively. With the news that…

“A GENEROUS DEGREE OF AFTERTOUCH ALLOWS YOU TO LAUNCH ATTACKS IN A WIDE ARC” Format Switch Publisher Nintendo Developer Nintendo ETA 16 June Splatoon 2 might be just around the corner, but you could argue that Arms is the true spiritual successor to the Wii U original. Like Splatoon, Arms sees Nintendo looking at a genre in which it’s previously had little experience, and attempting to shake things up with some fresh thinking. With Breath Of The Wild re-examining open-world conventions, this is becoming an exciting new habit for Nintendo. Here, it’s aiming to do for the one-on-one fighter what it previously did for the online shooter. And while it would be premature to judge its success in that regard, after a long afternoon spent with a new build…

“THEY’RE STRAIGHTFORWARD MISSIONS, BUT THE MALICIOUS PRESENCE OF A FIFTH PARTY GIVES THEM SOME SPICE” Format PS4, XO, PC Publisher MercurySteam Developer MercurySteam ETA October Does the world need another shooter?” asks Enric Alvarez, director of this 4v1 shooter, which MercurySteam has been working on since Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow 2. “This is the question we asked ourselves three years ago… We are, to use an English expression, going balls to the wall, in the most literal sense you can imagine.” We’re still trying to work out in what capacity Alvarez can possibly mean that literally as he gives us a rundown of the story. Set in the far future, a militaristic human faction has travelled 25 light years from Earth on the hunt for Aleph, a rare element enabling…

Format PS4, PC Publisher Double Fine Developer Foam Sword ETA May This charming co-op adventure might be Cornwall’s finest export since the pasty. In fact, the meat-filled treat makes more than one appearance, together with caravan parks, fudge shops, and locals yelling “proper job!”. You play as one of two girls, either Nessa or Demelza, with the other taken over by AI or a second person online or locally, and navigate shady woods, rainy harbours, and boarded-up amusement parks to rescue islanders from possession. Humour happens at the intersection of the real and fantastical: ‘treasures’ are actually owl pellets and mouse skulls; pedalling too much makes your character whip out an inhaler; and enemies are frequently papier-mâché. Combat against eyeball-spitting heads and levitating swords is a little simplistic, all about…

Format PC Publisher 11 Bit Studios Developer 11 Bit Studios ETA Winter Even by the standards of the developer’s previous hit, This War Of Mine, this freezing city-building game sounds bleak. Earth is blanketed in snow. Your job? To manage the last bastion of human civilisation, a steam-powered settlement on the brink of extinction. Keeping the home fires burning will mean making some seriously tough decisions. According to the devs, the game’s goal is to explore “what society does to survive”. While its mechanics will be familiar to fans of management games, the focus is not on number-crunching but on “empathy and decision making”. Given 11 Bit Studios’ previous form, that probably means mulling over whether to leave your best friend to die alone in a frozen ravine, or to…

Format PS4, XO Pub Bandai Namco Dev Bandai Namco ETA Summer 2018 This action-RPG, teased by Bandai Namco with an animated trailer titled Prepare To Dine, has no relation to Dark Souls. It does, however, include dining – mostly by your vampiric protagonist on the blood of frenzied beasts. After a disaster ravages Earth, your group of Revenants make a dark pact and gain crazy powers in exchange for their memories. Think scorpion-like tails and slashy claws. You’re journeying from the stronghold of Vein to reclaim them. Made by God Eater’s developers, expect massive metal weapons and lots of leather.…

Learning doesn’t have to be boring. In fact, with the wonderful world of videogames, you can actually do it accidently. From languages to cookery to politics, this selection of games teaches a wide variety of classes and courses: get the recipe for salmon meunière; discover the best way to displace a mediaeval dynasty; or find out how to say “My hippo is blue” in French. While we don’t advise dropping out of school or university just yet, you can supplement your education and broaden your mind so, at the very least, you’re more fun to be stuck in a lift with. ASTRONOMY UNIVERSE SANDBOX 2 (PC – 2012) Get a planet, throw it at a moon, add some asteroids, and baby, you’ve got a solar collision going. This space-based chemistry…

“Welcome to Flatwood Peaks, population minus one. Yes, Penny Doewood just died (and on a side note, she also lost her job, again). But from here things truly take a turn for the better for Penny! She ends up on The Otherside, a limbo for ghosts. Here, the most unemployable girl ever lands herself a job temping for Death (yes, the Death!), who is sick of dealing with the ghosts and their ridiculous issues. He gives Penny his scythe, with which she can possess humans and literally flip the world around. While in the heads of the living Penny can talk to their thoughts, but, more importantly, she can learn to control their wonky bodies and use their unique quirks to solve the ghosts’ weird problems. With the help of…

From the kart select screen you’ll see an icon that lets you switch between gyro and regular steering before the race starts. But the two options beside it are more transformative. ‘Safe steering’ mode is ideal for kids and novices, correcting your course if you’re in danger of veering off-road. You’re unlikely to win this way, but at least inexperienced players can enjoy the thrill of a race without constantly bumping into walls. The auto-accelerate option might prevent your thumb from an A-button-sized indentation, but it’ll take a few races to acclimatise.…

Outlast 2 takes place in Outlast’s universe, but whereas that concerned you with insane patients, secret facilities, and nasty genetic experiments, this pits you against a demented religious cult located deep in the Arizona desert. Their leader, Father Knoth, has convinced everyone the apocalypse is nigh, and that ritualistic suicide will fast-track them all to Heaven. Meanwhile, this triggers frequent flashbacks to a traumatic episode at your Catholic school, the emotional pain of which steadily drives you mad. Top this off with an old lady wielding a pickaxe and you’ve got yourself in a right pickle.…

You might feel that the three races in Dawn Of War III won’t offer nearly enough variety, but they play so differently that it feels like plenty. Space Marines are a great place to start – they’re solid and powerful, with versatile characters, and access to some fearsome heavy weapons. Eldar, by contrast, are essentially space elves; quick-strike specialists who can move quickly around the map but soak up less punishment. Orks are probably the hardest race to play, but we think they’re the most fun. These rough guttersnipes can grab scrap as they fight, using it to buff individual units and unlock new attacks. Everything they have gives you the sense that it might fall apart at any moment. but that’s part of the fun, isn’t it?…

The best of us A couple of years ago my friend and I were going through some problems. He had epilepsy and I was going through depression, and we were both alone. He had to stay away from parties, taking pills that made him very sleepy, and I was a kid who just couldn’t fit in. We were outsiders. We went through all sorts of help but nothing worked. We were these kids with these problems and we were just left out of groups and ignored. But then we noticed each other’s loneliness. And then a spark. Our massive friendship started over one game… The Last Of Us. It changed our lives! I was deeply in love with it. We would talk about it all day. In the end we…

RED DEAD REDEMPTION 2 Format PS4, XO ETA Autumn In its third month at the top spot, Red Dead’s starting to look as hard to shift as an ornery steed with glue on its hooves. That’s a cowboy saying, right? SUPER MARIO ODYSSEY Format Switch ETADecember And, for those same three months, Mario’s next outing has stayed at number two. Always the bridesmaid, never the bride… THE LAST OF US PART II Format PS4 ETA Winter 2018 Naughty Dog continues its campaign to raise awareness of fungal infections. Apparently in this one athlete’s foot mutates and zombifies everyone’s toes. CRASH BANDICOOT N SANE TRILOGY Format PS4 ETA 30 June A reminder of a time when Naughty Dog’s games were instead about raising awareness of Australian animal abuse. SONIC MANIA Format…

1.5m Copies of Persona 5 shipped worldwide in just the first few days following release. It’s a serious coup for a once-obscure JRPG series. 1m Copies of Nier: Automata sold worldwide in its launch month, eclipsing its predecessor Nier (estimated to have sold less than that in its whole lifetime). 100k Copies of Bayonetta’s new PC version sold on Steam in the first week of release – enough to make Sega very happy indeed. 2.6m Copies of Horizon: Zero Dawn sold in the first two weeks of release, making it the most successful new IP launch on PS4 ever.…

SIMPLY THE BAFT BAFTA’s not just about dishing out glittery games awards (Uncharted 4 was 2017’s big winner). The organisation also hands out three £12,000 postgraduate scholarships in film, television and games. Apply by 12 June for your chance to get mentored and your games development studies funded. Remember us in your speech when you get an award in five years… JOB LOT There are many ways to needle your employer, but making them into a boss battle is a new one. Nier: Automata’s DLC (oddly titled 3C3C1D119440927) pits you against Square Enix CEO Yosuke Matsuda and Platinum Games CEO Kenichi Sato. Hopefully they see the funny side… GAME AND WATCH Activision has revealed plans to turn Call Of Duty into a series of movies. And yes, that’s ‘movies’ plural,…

KAMINO This perennially rain-soaked water planet debuted in Episode II, and will likely see you fighting through the facilities that birthed the original wave of Stormtroopers. Remember those giant flying stingrays? Bet we see some of them. THE FOREST MOON OF ENDOR In Battlefront II’s story, Iden Versio visits the Ewoks’ home only to witness the Death Star blow up. While you won’t change history, you might be able to wreak revenge on those bears. Don’t look at us like that. STARKILLER BASE The First Order’s mobile installation, from The Force Awakens, has the power to destroy planets. It came into operation 30 years after the dust-up at Endor, so the version we’ll see is a work-in-progress. VARDOS Versio’s home provides a brand-new location. The grid-based layout of this Imperial…

KIT FISTO This Jedi knight won an army of fans by force-pushing droids, then grinning wildly during the Geonosis clash in Episode 2: The Clone Wars. We are easily pleased. Imagine those tentacles bouncing around in 4K. SHMI SKYWALKER Excuse the low-res image: the only virtual appearance by Anakin’s mum is in PS1 bin fire The Phantom Menace. She deserves a reappearance, not least so she can unleash her special move, the Shmi Shuffle. DEXTER JETTSTER The owner of an inexplicably ’50s diner on Coruscant comes stocked with an array of knives packed into his food-stained apron. He’s got a warm hug, but won’t hesitate to stab you in the back. SEBULBA Tatooine’s Podracing king remarks in N64’s Star Wars Episode 1 Racer he could run faster than Anakin’s vehicle.…

Spring Man Arms’ Ryu, basically, and art director Masaaki Ishikawa’s favourite: “We made him seem approachable to show off visually how welcoming the game is… he’s got that indomitable spirit you’d expect.” Min Min Lithe, with one arm made of noodles and the other forming a dragon’s body. The dragon’s laser is slow to fire, but can turn inward to force opponents to move. Her dodge moves allow her to kick aside attacks. Ninjara Ninjara wields a mean chakram, and has a blink-evade that activates when you block an attack or dash while jumping. Avoiding hits is vital – he’s a fast mover, but a bit of a glass cannon. Helix Helix is essentially Flubber with DNA strands for arms. When his Blorb attacks land, his opponent’s display will be…

Format PS4, XO, PC Publisher Team17 Developer Mothership Entertainment ETA Summer In space no-one can hear you scream in frustration when anothersandworm attacks your already fungus-infected colony. That sounds like something out of Doctor Who, but it’s an entirely possible scenario in Aven Colony’s extra-terrestrial building simulator, where you’re the governor of the Aven Prime colony. Just don’t get drunk on all that power. Even an alien would be able to guess that you’ll be building shiny domes to house your colonists, but there are some nifty additional features. As well as managing your workers’ – ahem, we mean citizens’ – happiness, you’re able to set social policies (like food rationing) or hold referendums in case things go haywire. You have bigger things to worry about, though. Sandworm attacks, an…

Format Switch, PS4, XO, PC Publisher Sega Developer Headcannon ETA September This sprite-based platformer is more than a simple homage to Sonic’s heady days on the Master System and Mega Drive. You could do that yourself with MS Paint and a Deviantart account. No, Mania is more, a full-sized ’90s Sega special made by lifelong blue blur devotees. That means classic stages return remixed. All the 16-bit textures and crunchy SFX of Green Hill Zone and Flying Battery Island are there, only the geography and enemy locations have been built from the ground up. Even bosses differ. Where in one chapter Dr Eggman once buzzed annoyingly about your head in a hover ship, here he’s tethered a wrecking ball to the bottom. It also means entirely new locations, including Studiopolis,…

Format PS4, XO, PC Pub THQ Nordic Dev Airship Syndicate ETA Autumn This turn-based RPG is quite the looker. Comic artist Joe Madureira (the man behind Darksider’s visual style) is lending his hand to it, and the result is charmingly chunky designs and beautiful animations. During our hands-on, however, we grow tired of the repetitive battles. There are attempts at interesting combat mechanics, including a speed rating for abilities that pushes your more powerful spells lower down the initiative order, but in the current build they don’t quite click.…

Summer is here, and with it a bevy of bugs, but these aren’t your garden-variety insects – these are the microscopic critters that cause wheezing, sneezing and even ‘gastroenterological easing’ (don’t Google that). It’s right now that these pesky pathogens do their worst work. It just so happens that videogames, like history, are full of such scourges – and so, in the spirit of being sickly, we’ve asked an expert pathologist to rate our gaming plagues. Could they happen? Would humanity make it? And is there any more room in the sterilised bunker? It’s time to break containment… THE LAST OF US CORDYCEPS BRAIN INFECTION (CBI) Presented as the mutant offshoot of the real-life Cordyceps fungus, CBI swaps an insect’s brainstem for the human one. And what a job it’s…

Format PS4 Developer Firesprite ETA May Web http://bit.ly/gmpersistence As nightmare scenarios go, it doesn’t get much worse than the occupants of a spaceship 17,000 light years from Earth being murdered by mutated colleagues after an experiment goes wrong. To make matters even more catastrophic, the mutant-packed ship is drifting towards a black hole which will destroy both the research on board and the remaining crew, who are in cryosleep. Oh, and this first-person horror game is in VR . A disturbing follow-up from the makers of The Playroom VR, it looks a lot like Dead Space with its shining sci-fi floors, but this scarefest has a couple of tricks up its sleeve. First off, this is actually a roguelike. You wake up as the ship’s AI starts…

When you’re not being chased by large, horrid creatures, your time in Little Nightmares involves trying to find the means of progressing to the next area – which is guaranteed to be just as chill-inducing. Here’s an example. 1 The Maw’s inhabitants take security very seriously, and escape is often hindered by troublesome padlocks. 2 Back in the bedroom there’s a glaringly obvious switch, but it’s too high for our pint-sized hero to reach. 3 Six may be short, but she sure is strong. She’s able to drag this suitcase and make a leap for the lever. 4 With the bed released she can scale the drawers. (Seriously, how much storage does one person need?) 5 A small table holds the means for unlocking the door, providing access to the…

1 Donkey Kong Country (SNES – 1994) In 1994, Nintendo did the unthinkable: it handed control of one of its most beloved first-party properties to a British developer. The result was a game of remarkable technical ambition, and Donkey Kong Country was one of the first games for a home console to make use of pre-rendered 3D graphics. What’s more important, it was also boisterous fun, and went on to become the second best-selling SNES game of all time. 2 Killer Instinct (SNES, Game Boy, Arcade – 1994) Rare cemented its reputation for graphical wizardry with the launch of this 2D fighting game, which presented a cartoonish cast of characters with an uncommon sense of heft and physicality. Unlike most modern fighting games, many of Killer Instinct’s combos…

Not sure which games to grab? Trust the experts (that’s us) to shine a light of clarity through your fog of confusion. Over this spread you’ll find GamesMaster’s 100 per cent scientifically accurate and indisputable list of the greatest games on modern machines – updated monthly – as well as the top five most vital exclusives on each of the major platforms. Pick one of these up and, buddy, you’re going to have yourself a good time. THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: BREATH OF THE WILD Switch / Wii U Nintendo casually revolutionises the open-world genre with perhaps the best launch title ever. Explore, fight, and cook your way across Hyrule. GRAND THEFT AUTO V PS4 / XO / PC / PS3 / 360 Rockstar’s most detailed, immersive cityscape yet serves…

1 HALO 5: GUARDIANS 2 FORZA HORIZON 3 3 KALIMBA 4 QUANTUM BREAK 5 GEARS OF WAR 4 1 THE LAST OF US REMASTERED 2 UNCHARTED 4: A THIEF’S END 3 HORIZON: ZERO DAWN 4 JOURNEY 5 BLOODBORNE 1 THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: BREATH OF THE WILD 2 MARIO KART 8 DELUXE 3 SNIPPERCLIPS 4 FAST RMX 5 KAMIKO 1 TOTAL WAR: WARHAMMER 2 GUILD WARS 2 3 DOTA 2 4 THE SIMS 4 5 CRUSADER KINGS 2 1 POKÉMON SUN AND MOON 2 FIRE EMBLEM FATES 3 ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW LEAF 4 MONSTER HUNTER GENERATIONS 5 THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: A LINK BETWEEN WORLDS 1 HEARTHSTONE 2 DEVICE 6 3 80 DAYS 4 SORCERY 4 5 MONUMENT VALLEY…